Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

2Oth, at j. j. Howes' shingle-mill at
Brainerd, Mimi, by which Jacob PETER
mill lost his life. Petternill run the bolter,
and in some manner was caught in the
machinery and thrown across the saw,
his body being cut in two just above the
waist.
NJ. V. B. HERsoM, formerly a State de-
tective, was arrested at Prov idence, r. l.,
on the Goth, charged with stealing $1,000
worth OF diamonds from f. M. Harris, a
travelling salesman of 1872 Broadway, New
York. He is accused of taking the dia-
monds while occupying q room with
Harris in Boston.
THE Topeka Base Ball Club has won the
Western League pennant for 1887.
DENVER, Col, entertained the New York
volunteer firemen on the 21st.
MONTREAL has a squad of 'boodle"
aldermen on trial.
A NEW treaty with Spain was signed by
the President on the 21st at Washington.
RUSSIA has sent an agent to Paris to en-
deavor to place a heavy loan among
French capitalists.
JUDGE WILLIE, of Texas, is being urged
for the United States Supreme Court va
cancy.
THE Sultan refuses to approve Of the
proposal of the Turkish Council that
Russian General be sent to Bulgaria to re-
store order.
BULGARIAN newspapers are being muz-
zled by the government to prevent
blunders like the one recently made by La
Bulgaria.
KLBRIDE, the evicted tenant of Lord
Lansdowne's Irish estate, and who toured
through Canada with William O'Brien,
has been elected to Parliament.
EMMA DRURY, aged twelve, and VIM.
oie ~, hur 70
death in a fire in Brooklyn fiat, on the
night of the 21st.
AN organization of the independent mill
tia companies in the District of Columbia
has been perfected after considerable OPP
position. The command will number $500
troops, and will be under the command of
General Ordway.
CIRCULARS have been forwarded to all
the United States consuIs in Canada ask
ing for certified returns. according to
sworn statements made before them, of
the exports of various articles at each
Canadian port to the United States during
the past three years.
A CROWD of drunken Hungarian strikers
attacked a gang of workmen at Hum
boldt colliery, Hazelton, Pa, on the 21st,
and drove them from the works. A num-
Der on both sides were injured. Pistols
and missiles of all descriptions were used.
FIRE at Dandy, Quebec, on the 21st, de-
stroyed twenty-five houses and the rail-
way station. As far as heard from no
lives were lost.
THOMAS MADDEN and Adam Williams
were run over by Baltimore & Ohio coal
train engine near South Haven, Pa, on the
night of the Goth. Madden was killed
instantly and Williams was fatally in
jured.
THE body. of William Mahan, the con-
ductor missing after the terrible destruc-
ton of rolling-stock caused by the rum
away train at Marquette, Mich. on the Goth,
was found at the bottom of an immense
heap of debris.
DURING the twenty -four hours ended on
the evening of the 21st sixteen new cases
of cholera and five deaths has occurred
in Catania; eight new cases and three
deaths in Palermo; 1856 new cases and
forty -four deaths in Messina.
In the divorce case at London of David
De Bensaude against his wife, Violet
Cameron, the actress, the court has issued
an injunction against the husband, re-
straining him from molesting his wife
during the period of legal separation.
CAPRoN & WoLvERToN's f1our-mill at
Albany, N. Y, was burned on the 21st,
with 1O0,0 900 bushels of grain. Loss, $780,
who were caught in an upper story of the
burning building were rescued with diff
Guilty.
THE color question in the public schools
is producing friction in Ohio.
A. SENTER, proprietor of a hotel at Novi,
Mich, his wife, and two guests, were
poisoned on the Goth by eating corned
beef bought of a meat peddler. Senter
will die. The others will probably re-
cover.
A NATURAL gas explosion at Oak Centre,
O., on the night of the Goth, set fire to the
flowing oil-tanks, machinery and der
ricks. The flames spread rapidly, and for
a time a disastrous conflagration seemed
imminent. The loss will not, however,
exceed $4,000. Several persons were
badly burned, one it is thought fatally.
The decomposed body of Lille Hoyle,
who disappeared from Webster, Mass,
September 1, was found on the Dist, in a
barn at Oxford. The head was securely
covered, and her feet and hands were
bound with rope. It is believed that she
was murdered and her body taken to the
barn and concealed.
A NUMBER of the late General Judson
Kilpatrick's friends met at the Astor
House, New York, on the 21st, and made
suitable arrangements for the reception
of the remains upon their arrival from
Chill.
AT the State fair at Waverly, n J., on
the 21st, Harry Miles and Eddy Medium
were driven double in 2:A IA, the fastest
recorded mile for team over a half-mile
track.
COMMISSIONER ATKINS insists that the
Indians must be taught in English.
MICHAEL DAvITr sailed on the 22d for
America.
BOND purchases on the 22d by the Gov
eminent under the new call We're $780,
600 four-per-cents and 1884, 700 LIS.
By an ocean mishap to the British
steamer Romeo seven people were drowned
on August 80.
GENERAL w. R. Cox, of North Carolina,
is being pushed for the position of assist
ant Secretary of State to succeed Govern
or Porter.
A PAIR of purses are said to have been
made out of portion of the skin of Pran-
zini, the Partisan murderer recently exc
cuted.
Two robbers held up stage running
from Comfort to Fredericksburg, Tex,
robbed the passengers and went through
the mails.
AN escaped exile from Siberia has
reached London and tells an extremely
graphic story of his experiences as q ref
ugee and of life in that Russian colony for
criminals.
A CHALLENGE was received at Boston,
on the ed, addressed to the sporting edi-
tor of the Globe, from Albert Hamm to
row Wallace Ross ten-mile race on the
Kemster rowing tricycle. for $500 a side in
any available place.
ARUMoR, not generally credited, is going
the rounds at Washington that Randall
has threatened to break with the Admin